Madness : a brief history /

This story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by "madness", covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Mental illness > History.
Mentally ill > Care > History.
Psychiatry > History.
Mental Disorders > history
Psychiatry > history
Maladies mentales > Histoire.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Mental illness.
Mentally ill > Care.
Psychiatry.
Wahnsinn
Kultur
Psychische Störung
Psychische stoornissen.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by "madness", covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, and psychoanalysis to Prozac. The origins of debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
ISBN:142375736X
9781423757368
1280444517
9781280444517
9780191622281
0191622281
9780191587764
0191587761
9786610444519
661044451X

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